That word again!

[Father Ted]

In carpentry when you drive a nail at an angle it's called "toe nailing". When I was a green horn I was sent to the lumber yard to get a box of toe nails amongst the standard lumber list. I would be lying if I said I haven't sent a few young ones on a toe nail run

[bigduke6]

I forgot to say - and you knew that there'd be a catch......... The government are heavily subsidising apprenticeship schemes at the moment to get the welfare bill and unemployment rate down. Says it all really......... And be careful with them sheep while you're excersising your medieval rights!

Sounds a bit like the the old YTS.... Does anyone in the UK remember that ?

I started my Apprenticeship as a Mechanic as soon as I left school ( Left as soon as I could in April but went back for the exams) but the garage was up for sale so went to to the shipyard in the September intake along with many other 16 year old's, on the first day we were told we were YTS.... did my heart sink, but it was just the company getting money from the Government as we were 4 year Apprentice's ....

[Simon P]

Yes remember the YTS and there was also the YOP Youth Opportunities Programme that lasted to about 1984

Not that many 4 year apprenticeships these days, we had to do 4 years plus at college, a year at the training centre learning the basic hand skills which included 3 months of hacksawing & filing, then you were allowed to use a shaping machine, as well as college we had to pass all the EITB modules.

In my year we had 120 apprentices which went down to 2 or 3 by the late 80s. We still take on a prentices (85 this year) but this is a loose scheme to what we knew as apprenticeships as it includes all areas including finance & various type of management roles. Our apprenticeships mainly last 2 years and most of the training is all vocational and very little based on gaining the practical skills and common sense leant the hard way.

[ssj]

That "tiger strip" has been on ebay for quite a while I think. Its great when dorks like this put such things up, tells me they are un-trustworthy and their goods should be avoided.